Expert: Scottgem - 11/14/2006

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I am looking for actual "decision-making" software for a business to use. It can relate to management, hiring, finance,peer reviews, spread sheets-any suggestions
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I am in search of software that is designed specifically to help a company with the decision making process. Any suggestions?   Reviews of the product (or sites I can review the product) would be helpful! Can you help? Thanks
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There are loads of different software apps that can be used to support the decision making process. Even a spreadsheet can be considered as decision support.

You need to define, what decisions you want to make and what criteria will be used to make decisions.

A computer is a very stupid device. It can only do what you tell it to do. For a very simple example: if you need to decide when to order additional supplies, you could have a reorder level to compare to your stock totals. So you say if the stock totals are less thant the reorder level, then generate an order.

HTH
Scott<>

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I understood what you wanted, I was trying to explain that such software is only as good as the parameters input into it.

I have no personal familiarity with such apps, but if you google "decision support software" you will find a bunch of apps being offered. Some with free trials.

Any search for such software is going to have go thru a lot of evaluation and planning.

HTH
Scott<>

Hmmm, I saw your comments and ratings. I can sorta understand the rating on knowledge, though I think I demonstrated a knowledge of the genre if not specific packages, But I really don't understand where I was unclear or not totally polite.

Scott<>